This Ergonomics for Supervisors online safety training course is convenient and easy to use. Individual employees can train at a time that is convenient for them, at their own pace. The system automatically tracks their progress in the course along with any completed quiz scores and bookmarks the learner’s place to make it easy to resume training if training is interrupted. Upon completion of the course, and a 100% score, the employee will then be able to print a certificate of completion.
Employers no longer need to pull large groups of employees off the job to complete their safety training.
- Meet compliance-based safety requirements
- Reduce risks of accidents and injury on and off the job
- Lower insurance premiums, workers compensation claims and lost work hours
- Improve employee morale and retention
This course provides supervisors with an understanding of the main elements of an Ergonomics Program based on OSHA industry guidelines and the NIOSH manual “Elements of Ergonomics Program.” The coverage includes preventative measures as well has how to respond when a possible injury is reported. It includes information on risk factors, signs, and symptoms of MSDs, common injuries, controls and safe work practices.
- Define the terms: "muskuloskeletal disorder" (MSD) and "ergonomics."
- Locate the most common parts of the body susceptible to MSDs.
- Recognize the signs and symptoms of injury to the muscles, skeleton, and nervous system.
- Classify some of the most common types of MSDs and their locations.
- Identify risk factors and work activities most commonly related to injury of the muscles, skeleton, and nervous system.
- Select controls and work practices that reduce and/or eliminate risk factors for injury to the muscles and skeleton.
- Identify the core elements of an ergonomics program and the roles of the employer and employees in making the program successful.
- Describe basic procedures for reporting MSD signs, symptoms and hazards in the jobs you supervise.
- Illustrate the general sequence of events that employers should follow if an MSD, or its signs or symptoms, are reported.
- Identify the elements of an ergonomics program and the roles of the employer and employees in making the program successful.
All persons who supervise individuals who have work activities that involve physical efforts involving lifting and handling materials/objects or activities that involve repetitive motions.
- OSHA 29CFR1910, Ergonomics
